(113 min; 2019; Malawi/English and with subtitles)
Written, Directed by and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor

Recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, Sundance Film Festival 2019; Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture, Image Awards (NAACP) 2020; and Fiction Grand Award, International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights 2019

Based on the memoir of the same name by Malawian innovator William Kamkwamba (co-written by journalist Bryan Mealer), The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind tells the remarkable story of how, as a largely self-taught techno-wizard, William (played by Maxwell Simba) saved his village from famine by building a wind turbine from scrap metal and bike parts